Research & Resources

For years, TDWI has seen an increasing number of organizations make strategic commitments to the cloud as a preferred computing platform. These commitments involve a wide range of use cases, from operations to analytics to compliance. However, the best practices of data management don’t disappear just because data and workloads shift to the cloud.
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One of the more popular subjects in data modernization today is the addition of data lakes to many different ecosystems. This report defines data lake types and discusses emerging best practices, enabling technologies, and real-world use cases.
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Big data and data science can provide a significant path to value for organizations. Download this report for organizations’ experiences with and plans for big data and data science including both technology plans and organizational strategies.
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All organizations, no matter how big their budget, must overcome barriers in order to realize value from data faster. Those that have historically experienced centralized, IT-centric BI implementations must transition to flexible environments that embrace the increased use of self-service technologies.
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Predictive analytics is on the verge of widespread adoption. In this report, Fern Halper provides an overview of the state of the predictive analytics market, as well as an overview of the key product offerings helping organizations realize value from predictive analytics.
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When numerous diverse data platforms are integrated for multiple use cases, it is called a hybrid data ecosystem (HDE), a concept invented and popularized by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) in 2012. An HDE provides options for rapidly diversifying data and its business use. Despite the extreme complexity and challenges, users are succeeding with HDEs. This TDWI Checklist Report drills into the data requirements of the HDE with a focus on the role of data virtualization.
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The growing adoption of cloud computing and software-as-a-service (SaaS) is merging with easier-to-use business intelligence and analytics tools to allow more users to interact with and analyze data. This Checklist Report discusses seven recommendations to help organizations be successful sooner in enabling a data-driven culture through visual, easier-to-use business analytics.
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Modern marketers are capturing success with an arsenal of advances in data management, software automation, and customer analytics that enable a single view of the customer. New sophisticated practices in omnichannel marketing leverage that view so marketers can serve burgeoning numbers of customers and channels. This Checklist Report drills into the data requirements of modern digital marketing, with a focus on the single customer view and omnichannel marketing.
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